Around the field Aug. 3, 2016
03 August 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Understanding places and approaches to the past at two U.K. conferences; audiovisual heritage in Washington, D.C.; new issue of Museum & Society on reimagining collections for diverse audiences
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- International Workshop on Public Understandings of the Past – Sept. 14-16, 2016, York, U.K.
- “Play/Back” symposium on audiovisual heritage – Sept. 30, 2016, Washington, D.C., U.S.
- “Putting History in its Place: Historic Landscapes and Environments” – April 21, 2017, Chester, U.K. (DEADLINE: Oct. 28, 2016)
FUNDING and AWARDS
- 2017-2018 Residential fellowships at National Humanities Center for advanced study in the humanities (DEADLINE: Oct. 18, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Upcoming courses on exhibition installation, design, mount making, and label writing at the International Preservation Studies Center
PUBLICATIONS
- New issue of Museum & Society (July 2016: Volume 14, No.2) available online
- Review: “Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America” (David M. Krueger)
- Review: “Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar” (Akiko Takenaka)
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